Initiative

LEARNING OBJECTIVES & SKILL DEVELOPMENT

• Students will explore their level of motivation, strengths and weaknesses.
• Students will explore the concept of apathy, its origins, and consequences.
• Students will learn strategies to address apathy, and develop positive thinking skills.
• Students will take ownership of their learning and development, recognizing that teaching does not equal learning.
• Understand the positive connection between well-being, motivation, and its role in combating apathy.
• Students will learn about grit and resilience, and their value in working through challenges.
• Students will understand the importance and power of setting meaningful goals.

Distracted Driver

Avoid Distracted Driving Stop Sign

This Distracted Driver course will be available in the spring of 2018.

Financial Intelligence

personal finance course for teens

Money management is one of the most important skills your students can learn, and our course will teach them everything they need to know to make smart financial decisions. From saving for college to investing, our course covers it all!

Here’s what you can expect from our course:

  • Easy-to-follow lessons on topics, such as budgeting, saving, investing, and more
  • Interactive exercises to reinforce learning and test knowledge
  • Expert guidance from experienced instructors who are passionate about financial education
  • assessment tools to facilitate deeper understanding of money mindsets

Truancy Prevention

Girl Crying As She Leaves School

eLearning Truancy Prevention is a course of self discovery that focuses on the thinking errors that lead to truancy and dropping out of school. This is not an educational program, rather a cognitive restructuring course that works in the cognitive domain to challenge faulty thinking and the affective domain to build self-esteem. It is course that helps students with their social, emotional, and academic progress.

 

Vaping Awareness

This course is designed for both prevention and early intervention for students who are considering or experimenting with any form of nicotine. All types of tobacco and nicotine are addressed including vaping, e-cigarettes, and chewing tobacco. Students are presented with several facts, stories and questions that help them see clearly the risks associated with vaping and other forms of nicotine.

Leadership

leadership skills course

The Leadership Skills course for students course will be available in November of 2017.

Marijuana Prevention

Leaf for Marijuana Awareness

This is a unique course that is addressing a hot topic in our world today. This course does not focus on the political or scientific differences that surround marijuana use, rather it focuses on the deep-seated thinking errors that are associated with marijuana abuse. Participants are given an opportunity for self-discovery as they read and respond to real stories of how marijuana abuse has affected real lives. Tangible solutions and increased awareness can help participants avoid the negative consequences that are connected to marijuana abuse.

Boundaries – Dating Violence Prevention

dating life skills course

Boundaries – Teen Dating Violence Prevention is a cognitive awareness course designed to help teens become safer and more aware of their own and other boundaries. It is written in a story format as it follows individual lives and consequences of both victims and perpetrators. It is also a short course on Constitutional rights that protect people from abuse and their pursuits to happiness.  It is one of several short courses that all come together to help teens navigate the many difficult obstacles they face and stay out of harms way into adulthood.

Bullying Prevention

bullying prevention course

Bullying Prevention is a cognitive life skills course for students written in a story format that follows the lives of those being bullied and and those doing the bullying. The course highlights the consequences for both the victim and perpetrator. The objective is to demonstrate the serious problems associated with bullying in its many forms. The course defines bullying and helps students become self-aware of their potential to bully or become a victim of bullying.

Infinity – Media Awareness

media awareness course

This cognitive life skills course for school students was written in a story format and demonstrates the warnings and dangers of the internet. Internet Safety helps students understand social footprints and take more caution and personal responsibility for their online behavior. The course has a section on the cyber bullying and addictions to video games. It is a timely course for naïve, immature teenagers who are not fully cognizant, and a wake-up call for parents. This course is presented in 4 units, and takes approximately 4 to 6 hours to complete.